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dman
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 Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject: Price structure |
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Location: London. UK
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I think Copper is great, but I do feel that the price structure could be improved. My suggestion would be to drop the Standard version down to become the free 'Personal' Edition with a 1 user limit and then offer the Corporate version at different priced tiers depending on the number of users. Maybe four options of 10, 25, 50, 200.
As I only run a small studio with 4 staff I can't justify the $99 a month for a product that is priced up to suit 50 users. Standard at $29 is good value, but the new Corporate version is so much better.
Also your developers could then focus on just the one version and leave the Standard as a free product. |
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Ben
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Hi Dman,
I appreciate the sentiment, but effectively Copper would cease to exist at those price points.
Thanks for the feedback though. |
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dman
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Hi Ben
I'm not saying that you should drastically drop the price, but just offer a more affordable version of corporate for companies with a smaller user base. Not sure if you got the wrong end of the stick but my suggestion of 10,25,50,100 was number of users not $.
I may be be wrong, but I am sure that there was a recent Copper email newsletter that mentioned a possible cheaper/less users version of corporate in the pipeline. |
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Ben
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| dman wrote: |
Hi Ben
I'm not saying that you should drastically drop the price, but just offer a more affordable version of corporate for companies with a smaller user base. Not sure if you got the wrong end of the stick but my suggestion of 10,25,50,100 was number of users not $.
I may be be wrong, but I am sure that there was a recent Copper email newsletter that mentioned a possible cheaper/less users version of corporate in the pipeline. |
You're correct we were thinking about the Studio version ($749/$49mth) being based on the Corporate code-base, but the numbers just didn't stack up for us so it is based on the Standard codebase.
We do like to be open about these things, and being a smaller company with a huge development overhead we need to recoup costs.
We've just introduced the Free standard version (single user) and maybe into the new year when we've had a chance to recoup the costs of Corporate we'll look at making Studio a Corporate variant, which is $49/mth.
The current Standard version ($499/$29mth) is a fantastic product though, only 10 months ago is WAS the Corporate version at $999 
If you know anyone who wants to fund us though the micro-economics change dramatically. Hope this gives a better insight into our decision making. |
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